Capitalism's eye
"Capitalism's Eye" is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, a…
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"Capitalism's Eye" is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War. Looking at the department stores, home life, and the great exhibitions around the turn of the last century, "Capitalism's Eye" promises to transform how we understand both the cultural history of capitalism in America and Europe and the historical roots of the mediated spectacle that dominates our world today
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- Publication Date:2007, ©2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007, ©2008
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 219 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415933414, 0415933412, 9780415933407, 0415933404
- oclc:ocn487292028
- LC Classification:HC110.C6
- Dewey Decimal:306.3
Table of Contents
Relations of production under glass -- Consumption and spectacle -- Phantasmagoria and the fetish -- Memories of capitalism -- The distracted flâneuse -- At home in the world -- Disposal and the display case -- Afterword : Taking possession.
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